Wolfgang Dauner Quartett – Piano x 4 (1969/2016) [HighResAudio FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Wolfgang Dauner Quartett – Piano x 4 (1969/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz  | Time – 35:32 minutes | 706 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Stuttgarter Dauner approaches legendary status as one of Germany’s most inventive pianist-composers. Here the quartet jumps onto a bouncy Take The A Train, riding on to Dauner’s own Waltz for a Young Girl with luscious soprano and piano solos. On Ellington’s Take The Coltrane the band rides out on a modern blues. Swiss pianist Elsie Bianchi was popular throughout the 50’s and 60’s as pianist/pianist. Her Baron Lazor features a relaxed, swinging blues, while she interprets What Is This Thing Called Love with a bluesy flair and some hip quotes. Dieter Reith co-wrote the music for 1972 Munich Olympics and worked with the likes of Stan Getz and Art Farmer. On Willow Weep For Me he rhapsodizes in trio on the melody before injecting a Latin lilt with the addition of timbales and bongos. Rieth’s Goofin’ Each Other displays his prodigious talent: this guy can play! ‘Waldi’ Heidepriem was a force in the South German music scene; with tightly knit arrangements and Impressive trumpet and sax solos on Cole Porter’s You Do Something To Me and Jimmy Heath’s Big P, his quintet shows off the high quality of play in mid-60’s Germany. An enlightening listen to some of the best young German players of the era.

Tracklist:
01 – Wolfgang Dauner Quartett – Take the ‘A’ Train
02 – Wolfgang Dauner Quartett – Waltz for a Young Girl
03 – Wolfgang Dauner Quartett – Take the Coltrane
04 – Elsie Bianchi Trio – Baron Lazor
05 – Elsie Bianchi Trio – What Is This Thing Called Love
06 – Dieter Reith Quintett – Willow Weep for Me
07 – Dieter Reith Quintett – Goofin’ at Each Other
08 – The Modern Jazz Group Freiburg – You Do Something to Me
09 – The Modern Jazz Group Freiburg – Big “P”

Wolfgang Dauner-Quartett: Recorded on April 2, 1964 at SABA-Tonstudio.
Elsie Bianchi-Trio: Recorded on December 4, 1963 at SABA-Tonstudio.
Dieter Reith-Quintett: Recorded on December 23, 1963 at SABA-Tonstudio.
The Modern Jazz Group Freiburg: Recorded on October 21, 1963 at SABA-Tonstudio.

Digitally remastered

Personnel
Joki Freund, alto saxophone
Gustl Mayr, tenor saxophone
Eberhard Weber, bass
Karl-Theodor Geier, bass
Peter Witte, bass
Siro Bianchi, bass
Charlie Antolini, drums
Hansjörg Schmidt, drums
Peter Baumeister, drums
Dieter Reith, piano
Elsie Bianchi, piano
Ewald Heidepriem, piano
Wolfgang Dauner, piano
Hermann Mutschler, timbales
Kurt Bong, bongos
Hans Kennell, trumpet

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